Christmas Sunday

Look how well we clean up! We took these today after church, and before we could degenerate into the messes that babies inevitably cause. It's nice to think that we can look like this once in a while. Below are close-ups of the dress I made for Lily for Christmas.

Christmas Crafts

I'm pretty proud of this first project. Its Lily's stocking. I embroidered the nativity scene and quilted the rest. It is the same pattern as Daniel and my stockings- as well as the rest of my family, so now we all match! (But her's is the best :) )

The picture below is of Lily's Christmas dress. Can you see the new focus of my Christmas projects? (Answer: Lily) Actually, she's really the focus of all my projects these days. Anyway, this is a derivative of Lily's blessing dress, made out of red shantung silk, cropped shorter and with lattice smocking on the bodice which I found on Summer and Ben's blog. Thanks for the tutorial Summer!

I'll post pictures of Lily in the dress shortly!

Lily's First Christmas

Well, seeing as she's only three months old, we didn't expect a lot of interest in presents, paper and such. But, we got this really cute video of her when the paper did catch her attention.




We are having so much fun with the family in Utah and are thinking about our family in California. We love you!